Hirondelle USA Annual Report 2013

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Annual Report 2013

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Our Mission Hirondelle USA is a non-profit organization that helps build and sustain independent media in post-conflict and transitioning countries through a partnership with the Swiss NGO Fondation Hirondelle. We turn information into the tools that people need to rebuild their communities and their lives.

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What We Do In countries where illiteracy rates are high and rural populations are isolated, radio is the most effective way to reach people. For nearly two decades, Fondation Hirondelle has been working in post conflict countries, building media that help to create bonds and foster dialogue between people otherwise separated by distance, religion, or beliefs.

Hirondelle USA supports this work by raising funds, creating opportunities for technical innovation and research, and developing programs that enhance the ability of Hirondelle media to report on issues of importance to the populations we serve. HUSA is working as well to ensure greater protection for the local journalists that keep populations informed during the chaos and violence of civil conflict.

In 2013, the importance of locally reported professional news was especially evident in South Sudan and Central Africa Republic (CAR), where political tensions tipped into spiraling violence. In CAR Fondation Hirondelle’s Radio Ndeke Luka has emerged as a bastion for lifesaving information, and in much of the country it is the only reliable voice offering this information.

These media need and deserve our support so that citizens of conflict and post-conflict countries can exercise their right “to seek, receive, and impart information, through any media, and regardless of frontiers,” as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Our Projects

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Women in Conflict Initiative Providing information and voice to Women in Mali, Guinea and Sierra Leone In October 2013, HUSA launched its first project in West Africa with support from the Ford Foundation, providing training to journalists and funding the production and broadcast of programming on local media in Mali, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Women and girls are uniquely and disproportionately affected by armed conflict.

In post conflict and disaster settings, they often suffer from lack of security and are excluded from decision-making and participation in economic, social and political spheres. Journalism that accurately reflects the stories and concerns of women will challenge the tendency of the media in these countries to sensationalize or politicize reporting on women, especially on gender-based violence.

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the quality and quantity of professional reporting on women’s issues. HUSA is working in partnership with Fondation Hirondelle and its media in Mali and Guinea, and with the University of Sierra Leone in Freetown.

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Reporting on transitional justice: JusticeInfo.Net A partnership with the Oxford Transitional Justice Research and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Populations seeking truth, justice, reparations or the guarantee of non-repetition in the aftermath of conflict lack information and a means of engagement in a process that affects them and their communities profoundly. Hirondelle USA, along with Fondation Hirondelle, is developing a transitional justice media platform delving into background, and providing context, and analysis from different perspectives and points of view. This platform will be a resource for journalists and teaching tool as well as a news site, with interactive timelines, a transitional justice lexicon, biographies, and backgrounders.

The platform architecture and tools will be designed, tracked and evaluated to ensure impact for the three targeted audiences: media houses and journalists, academic and justice actors, and the general public. In addition, ongoing consultations will be made with the three audiences in order to create relevant content and effective presentation and delivery. These exchanges will give voice to the population on expectations and perceptions of the justice mechanisms, peace processes and rule of law.

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Reporting on the environment Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management in West and Central Africa through accurate, accessible and informed broadcast journalism.

Conservation and protection of the abundant natural resources and rich biodiversity of West and Central Africa’s forests is a vital part of ensuring peace and sustainable development in the region. These forest ecosystems are of global importance in terms of climate change mitigation, and are considered among the most biologically diverse in the world.

To address the need for information and better understanding of the natural environment HUSA is developing a three-year regional program of training and broadcast that will enrich and amplify professional radio reporting on environmental issues in Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo. Hirondelle media and community radio partners in each of the countries will produce and broadcast programs that accurately reflect the stories, concerns, and challenges relating to conservation, development, livelihoods, and food security.

The Overall objective of the project is to strengthen national, regional and international efforts to sustain ecological balance and local livelihoods in the Upper Guinea Forest and Congo Basin Forest regions through mass media and information technology.

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Expected launch:

01.2015

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Fondation Hirondelle Headquarters

Tunisian Radio

Where We Work

Radio Miraya South Sudan

Guinea Sierra Leone Cote d'Ivoire

Radio Ndeke Luka k in Central Africa Republic Radio Okapi u Democratic Republic of Congo

In 2013 Hirondelle USA worked in the following countries: Mali Guinea Sierra Leone Fondation Hirondelle conducts work in the following countries: Central African Republic Cote D’Ivoire Democratic Republic of Congo Guinea Mali South Sudan Tunisia

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Our Budget Revenues

Expenses

$31,610 Fundraising

$138,005 Grants Foundation Hirondelle

$177,526 Program

$134,908 Other Foundation GrantsGrants

$16,100

Individual Contributions

Hirondelle USA’s total

238,374

expenses in 2013 $

Hirondelle USA’s total

289,013

revenue in 2013 $

$29,238 General and Administrative

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Our Budget (Continued) Statement of Functional Expenses - Cash Basis Year Ended December 31, 2013 Program

General and Administrative

Fundraising

Total

Grants to Foundation Hirondelle

$23,350

$23,350

Grant to Cotton Tree News

$30,000

$30,000

Salaries and benefits

$85,748

$21,437

$$21,437

$128,622

Consultants

$18,125

$800

$1,000

$19.925

Training and related fees

$9,150

Website

$2,000

$9,150 $2,000

$4,000

$1,409

$2,818

$2,313

$2,313

$1,833

$1,833

$12,819

Fees

$2,158

$18

$2,176

Telecommunications

$400

$400

$800

Office

$1,201

$1,200

$2,401

$29,238

$31,610

$238,374

Office equipment

$1,409

Brochures Travel

Total

$9,153

$177,526

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For more information contact Anne Bennett, Executive Director Hirondelle USA abennett@hirondelleusa.org 646.291.9848